Press July 14 of our families and organizations National Meeting of gay or lesbian parents
release of our families and organizations
Rosario, June 6, 2010
families formed by gay, lesbian, trans and bisexual men, gathered at the First National Meeting of Families in the city of Rosario on 5 and June 6, 2010, we realize that our families already exist. And there by our will, our desire and commitment. For several years we raise babies, children and adolescents who have gestated using reproductive technologies or not, taken or been in his care and custody of various life circumstances. We are thousands and several families made up of LGBT people across the country and all social classes.
Some of our families are harmonious and not others. We joys and problems like all families. We are not perfect families or outside of conflict, but we intend to seek the best for our children and our children in a context that is not always willing to meet us, join us, listen, learn we and celebrate diversity in all its aspects. The gay / lesbian / trans / social biphobia is the greatest obstacle to our children and our children are to grow freely.
Many laws and international agreements on rights guaranteed in theory nuestrxs hijxs our families but in practice these rights are not met or we are prevented from exercising them. The biggest obstacle to the full exercise of rights nuestrxs lies in the recognition of unx only mothers or fathers of nuestrxs hijxs. Nosotrxs mismxs as individuals and as couples and our families every day to see expuestxs systematic violation of our rights. Although some are already covered by national or international law.
Among his duties, the International Convention on the Rights of Children and Adolescents ensures all LA Anarchist niñxs the right to identity, ie, if hijxs reconocidxs as lesbian, gay and trans, more of a mother or a father. It also ensures the integrity of the family. However, in case of death of the mother or the father legally reconocidx. Nuestrxs alejadxs niñxs can be your mother or father is not legally reconocidxs. If unx of mothers or fathers are immigrants there is no guarantee as to preserve the integrity family if immigration is not formalized, because they are at risk of being deportadxs. Niñxs Nuestrxs escuchadxs are entitled to trials when dealing with matters that affect them, such as those connected with their families.
national labor laws that recognize rights and trabajadorxs in the formal system does not take into account the prerogatives of our families. The mother or father who has no legal recognition can not extend the coverage of social work, or life insurance benefits not to charge the family income or take leave for birth, adoption or illness of their daughters or sons. Nuestrxs niñxs, in turn, are being violentadxs their right to receive these benefits.
Nuestrxs hijxs are not guaranteed their right to be cuidadxs by their mothers or fathers are legally recognized as their fathers and mothers without legal recognition will consideradxs extrañxs by the health system. In this way, it ignores their views in decision making, they are not provided medical information and even prevent them from visits or stay with his hijx if you need hospitalization. The mother or father are legally reconocidxs forzadxs be permanently available to interact with the health system and if they are not vegan médicxs can turn to their legal families despite the existence, presence, commitment and legitimacy of the mother or father even though not legally recognized esxs relatives show no respect for our family.
The same situation occurs in the field of education. In these communities, only the mother or father will be legally reconocidxs validadxs requeridxs and should be available all the time. The interaction of the mother or the father does not legally reconocidxs with the educational system is subject to the good will, openness and commitment to the diversity of each establishment kindergarten or school. On the other hand, if our daughters or sons would or had to leave the country with his mother or father is not legally be required reconocidx special procedures and authorizations beyond the agreement called for in case of heterosexual parents as if they were extrañxs.
In case of separation of mothers or fathers vegan derechxs of each member of the family are at risk. Our daughters and sons are not guaranteed financial support in the form of share food from your mother or father is not legally reconocidx, share with all LA Anarchist hijxs guaranteed to heterosexual couples who are married or in fact. Nor are they guaranteed the continuity of contact with their mother or father is not legally reconocidx and his extended family (abuelxs, TIXS, REPs, etc.) and are not even guaranteed the continuity of the link with their corresponding recognition hermanxs if different members of the couple. Legamente mothers or fathers at risk of sustaining reconocidxs exclusively by their means to their vegan and non-legally hijxs reconocidxs risk losing contact and left out of the lives of their hijxs.
Our families are always formed from the desire, nuestrxs hijxs are deseadxs and buscadxs. But we are not better or worse than the group of families formed by heterosexuals. We are not desviadxs or enfermxs, but we refuse to have to prove that we are "normal." We do not recognize a pattern or a family that can be considered "normal." Let alone a family in relation to which evaluates the rest. The insistence on having to prove normality involves implicit pathologizing LGBT existence is heterosexist and exerts an adverse effect on our families and nuestrxs hijxs, sometidxs to constant scrutiny. Nuestrxs hijxs will buenxs or malxs alumnxs, buenxs or malxs comrades, happy or sad, straight, gay, lesbian, bisexual or trans. Our daughters and our children have every right, as all girls and all children to freely explore their own sexual and gender identity without violence or conditions.
In this context, we demand the amendment of laws, their interpretation and enactment of new ones so to ensure all our human rights fully. The most important change in relation to our demands, as that would enable any necessary changes to ensure the full exercise of these rights is linked to the concept of family. The national and provincial laws and municipal regulations can not continue to be guided by a concept of heterosexual nuclear family as the only valid model. This excludes a large number of heterosexual families and all families gtlb in a blatant act of discrimination and social inequality, cultural and economic. The concept of family based on patriarchal ideology should be replaced by a broad and inclusive concept that accounts for multiple family conformations that exist in society today in Argentina.
Specifically, we need and demand the modification of the wording or the interpretation of the laws of descent, adoption, marriage, civil, labor and migration with the intention of making based on concepts of family and extended family and non-discriminatory. We demand that our spouses and families are recognized and included in the design, implementation and execution of all public policies such as social plans, plans for housing, access to credit, anti-discrimination campaigns and programs, educational programs, health promotion, etc. In this sense, we adhere to the Campaign for the American Convention on Sexual and Reproductive Rights. Its implementation would represent an advance in the commitments of the states in the region to sexual rights and reproductive rights of all LA residents.
In particular, we call the national state and provincial and municipal governments a comprehensive amendment of the school curriculum by the power of educational institutions as forming agents and transforming of culture. Finally, we emphasize again that the demand for our legal equality far from being a formality for us and we become a vital issue. LGBT people live in a context of violence hostitilidad and supports the murder of Natalia Gaitán, shot by a lesbian in Cordoba on March 7, 2010 by Daniel Torres, stepfather of his girlfriend. We reiterate the demand for justice for Natalia and urge the exercise of true democracy in a context of full citizenship where crimes against LGBT people no longer take place.
Signed:
Organizations: Lesmadres-mother and the mother who bore @ l, Argentina Federation Youth LGBT The Safina desalambrar - Buenos Aires, the so-and Cooperative Work for Transvestites and Transsexuals Nadia Echazu Sexual Diversity Area of \u200b\u200bthe Municipality of Rosario, FHOI (gay or lesbian parents Integrated Argentinas), RIMA (Information Network of Women in Argentina) and My Moms Rosario.
Activists: Emiliano Marello, Luciano García Lo Bello, Karina González, María Laura Rojas, Marcela Costa, Marcelo Zelarallan Soledad De Sensi, Gabriela Bacin, Florence Gemetro, María Luisa Peralta, Julieta Bonazza, Natalia Rodriguez, Luciana Da Silva, Maria Eugenia Sarra, Roberta Saccoccio, Veronica Ortolano, María Inés La Greca, Ivan Otero, Romina Reinaudo and children, Jamie Garcia, Guido Vespucci, Veronica Capriglioni, Laura García, Irene Lopez, Paula Elizabeth Peyre, Ana Maria Tovo, Elizabeth Cancino, Geraldine Reed, Ruben M. Castillo, Laura Vernetti, Maria del Carmen Regnicoli, Claudia Candido, Silvio Massa, Mercedes Monjaime and Aguiar, César Bozzini, Mariela Morandi, Javier Vanaya, Irene Ocampo.
